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Faculty
Professor Zou Keyuan Dr. Zou Keyuan is the professor of Law School of Dalian Maritime University. He specializes in international law, in particular law of the sea and international environmental law. He has published over 200 books, book chapters and journal articles in English. His latest books include Maritime Cooperation in Semi-Enclosed Seas: Asian and European Experiences (2019), and The Belt and Road Initiative and the Law of the Sea (2020). Dr. Zou is a member of Editorial Boards of International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, Ocean Development and International Law, Journal of international Wildlife Law and Policy, Marine Policy, Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, Chinese Journal of International Law, and Advisory Boards of Global Journal of Comparative Law, Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, and Koran Journal of international Comparative Law.
Dr. David Freestone David Freestone LLD is the Executive Secretary of the Sargasso Sea Commission – an initiative led by the Government of Bermuda that he has directed since 2010. He is an Adjunct Professor/Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University Law School; a member of the Committee of Legal Experts of the Commission of Small Island States on International Law and Climate Change (COSIS); and Co-rapporteur of the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise. He is the founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (now in its 39th year). From 1996 he worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, as Chief Counsel of the environment and international law practice group and retired as Deputy General Counsel/Senior Adviser in 2008. He has written widely on the law of the sea and international environmental law, including more than 30 books. Recent works include: International Law Aspects of Sea Level Rise (World Bank, 2023) with Duygu Çiçek; International Law and Sea Level Rise. (Brill, 2019) with Davor Vidas and Jane McAdam; Conserving Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (Ed., Brill, 2019); Sustainable Development and International Environmental Law (ed., Edward Elgar, 2018). In 2008 he was awarded the Elizabeth Haub Gold Medal for Environmental Law.
Professor Zhang Xinjun Dr. Zhang Xinjun is a Professor of Public International Law at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His research interests include the Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law, Non-proliferation Law and the Law of Treaties. He is the Director of the Center for the Law of the Sea Study in Tsinghua Law School. Dr. Zhang’s Publication includes: The U.S. Promotion of Internationalization and the Legal Order of the South China Sea: Sovereignty, Maritime Rights and Dispute Settlement, Oriental Law (2022 in Chinese); Dispute Settlement Under Disarmament Treaties, in Hélène Ruiz Fabri (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (OUP 2021); Law and Politics in Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy, Intellectual Property Publishing House (2020 Springer, forthcoming); The U.S. Freedom of Navigation Operations in the Shifting Legal Order of the Seas, Nanjing University Law Journal (2020 in Chinese); Jurisdictional and Substantive Aspects in the Application of UNCLOS Article 83(3) in Recent International Decisions, in Myron H. Nordquist (ed.) Cooperation and Engagement in the Asia-Pacific Region, Brill Nijhoff (2020), pp. 99-116; Bifurcation in Inter-State Cases, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 40, No. 4 (2019), pp. 937-88; Nonappearance and Procedural Delicacy: Some Observations on the Tribunal's Handling of Jurisdiction in the South China Sea Arbitration, Journal of International Law and Diplomacy, Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 50-76.
Dr. Xue Guifang Dr. XUE Guifang（Julia）is distinguished Professor of international law at KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). She serves as Director to the Center for Polar and Deep Ocean Development and Center for the Rule of Ocean Law Studies, SJTU. In addition to the day-to-day institutional function and responsibilities for funding management and project operation, she has research interests in the law of the sea in general, issues relating to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and state practice in particular. She chairs commissioned projects for drafting up and revising national laws and regulations for conservation of marine living resources and protection of marine environment, and provides consultancy on policy-making and practical issues to ocean-related agencies. She involves actively in academic activities by providing platform for national and international symposiums and conferences on law of the sea topics, polar issues and deep seabed mining law and policy. She participated in international forums and committees as professional adviser and executive member. She resides the seat on behalf of her institute in the International Seabed Authority as an observer, and contributes to the advancement of China’s participation of global ocean governance, particularly in legal issues related to deep seabed mining. She has published widely on law of the sea issues.
Professor Shi Yubing Dr. SHI Yubing is a Professor and Vice Dean of the South China Sea Institute, School of Law at Xiamen University, China. He serves as a member of Advisory Committee on International Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of China Oceans Law Review, a peer-reviewed bilingual Journal that has been jointly operated by five universities from China including Chinese Macao, Hong Kong and Taiwan since 2005. Dr Shi received his PhD in law from Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security, University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia in 2014 and served as a lecturer at the Law School of UOW before he joined Xiamen University in 2015. His research interests include international law of the sea and the legal protection of the marine environment. He has published widely on marine environmental law, shipping regulation and BBNJ negotiations. He is the author of a monograph entitled “Climate Change and International Shipping: The Regulatory Framework for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions” published by Brill Nijhoff in 2017. Dr. Shi was a member and adviser to Chinese Delegation to BBNJ Intergovernmental Conferences held in UN Headquarter in New York.
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